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Cut Florida's universities and the whole state bleeds, Palm Beach Post

January 3, 2009
Editorial


When state lawmakers meet in a special session next week to take up Gov. Crist's proposal to close a $2.3 billion budget gap, public universities should be a sacred cow.

Gov. Crist is recommending a 2.1''percent cut to the university system, or $51 million. That's smaller than the $97''million, which represents the 4 percent holdback announced in June, that could be implemented. But we believe it should be zero percent.

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